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1941-11-081941-11-09Duisburg Convoy

The Italian convoy "Duisburg", named after the German steamer, was destroyed by the Royal Navy's Force K with no loss and almost no damage.

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1941-11-07Armenia Sunk

Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimeas hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking.

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1941-11-06Stalin Address

Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his three-decade rule. He states that even though 350,000 troops were killed in German attacks so far, the Germans had lost 4.5 million soldiers and that Soviet victory was near.

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1941-10-31USS Reuben James Sunk

Position Unknown. Reuben James was hit forward by a torpedo and her entire bow was blown off when a magazine exploded. The bow sank immediately. Of the 159-man crew, only 44 survived. It was the first U.S. Navy vessel sunk by enemy action in WWII.

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1941-10-30Lend Lease Approved

Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves U.S. $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations.

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1941-10-30Belzec

1,500 Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) are sent by Nazis to Belzec extermination camp.

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1941-10-301942-07-04Siege of Sevastopol

Despite numerous setbacks and high casualties, with the help of highly effective aerial bombardment (to make up for a shortage in artillery), Axis forces capture the port city.

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1941-10-29Kaunas Ghetto Massacre

In the Kaunas Ghetto over 10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the "Great Action".

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1941-10-22Guy Mquet Executed

French hero of the resistance Guy Mquet is executed by the Germans, along with 29 other hostages as a retaliation for a killed German officer.

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1941-10-201941-10-21Kragujevac Massacre

German troops massacred between 2,300 to 5,000 civilians, mostly Serbs and Roma, women and schoolchildren, in Kragujevac, Yugoslavia (now Serbia). It was one of the worst massacres during the German military occupation of Serbia.

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